So I have NZBGet with Drone handling all the post processing. I recently moved everything to a new hard drive but I made sure to do a full scan and update and everything reported ok. I have it set to not download propers and to cutoff at 480p otherwise get a 720p at a 2gb maximum. So I look in NZBGet and it has two entries for one episode (on multiple shows dating back before I moved to the new hard drive), one is a 3gb 720p and the other is a 400mb HDTV, neither is marked proper. I check the destination folder and find a single 350mb file with this name: “The 100 - 1x01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09 - Pilot + Earth Skills + Earth Kills + Murphy’s Law + Twilight’s Last Gleaming + His Sister’s Keeper + Contents Under Pressure + Day Trip + Unity Day.mp4”.
- How do I convince Drone that I really only want one, non-proper, sub 1gb, whichever SD/HD/480/720 is available then stop getting it again.
- I had all 9 episodes in that show folder, why did it decide to combine them all into one file which I don’t even think is the latest episode?
How is your quality profile setup (screenshot would be helpful). Does drone show multiple grabbed events in the episode activity for that/those episode(s)?
A poorly named file could do that, but without debug logs when it happened its going to be pretty tough, drone’s history may have some information, but not sure how useful it will be.
Right, logs, sorry. I didn’t have debug on at the time though, pastebin.
And the image of my quality profile. I’m certain that it’s not the best method, but we have a lot of SD/VHS quality shows we’re monitoring, and don’t really care about anything over 720p, the only thing we do care about is large file sizes. So this is what I’ve narrowed it down to after trial and error of shows not being downloaded because they’re only a single definition week to week. But the result is that Drone occasionally downloads files outside of our quality boundaries (i.e. 3gb+) then replaces it with a lower quality/filesize later on (~100mb). We’d really like to have an hour long episode be the closest release to 1gb of any definition then never download that episode/proper again unless manually done.
One bug that I’m afraid will delete more files and one annoyance I’ve been putting off asking about. Thanks for getting back to me so soon.
Well there are a few things wrong:
Your size settings aren’t are double what you want (orange is 30 minute and blue is 60 minute), so you’re 1 hour shows allow up to 2GB, regardless of the quality.
The other is the profile, its a mess, you’re most wanted quality is SDTV which is always the cutoff, so if it grabs HDTV it will eventually downgrade to SDTV.
You’ll want two profiles, one for SDTV only and the other for HDTV. I’d suggest the default profiles that shipped with drone, SDTV = SDTV + DVD with the cutoff at SDTV. HDTV 720p is HDTV 720p, WEB-DL 720p and Bluray 720p, with the cutoff at HDTV 720p - see the screenshot for more info: https://db.tt/YXbzw6JE - create two new profiles, don’t re-order the qualities and then move your shows over then finally remove that TV - All profile.
Also take a look at: https://github.com/NzbDrone/NzbDrone/wiki/Quality-Profiles it covers everything I’ve said here, with examples.
As for the download size, those logs don’t have any info, the one NZB in there is only 400MB. Also reset your API key for nzbid.org and nzbplanet.net as the logs exposed them (I’ll add some cleansing there to prevent that).
After reading that wiki page half a dozen times, other posts, and experimenting… Does the blue cutoff quality have to be first? What happens if the cutoff is unavailable and one of the others is downloaded, why wouldn’t it replace them with the cutoff like it is now? I get the order of importance but is there an option to just download whichever is found first and stop? Or would that just be creating one profile with just HDTV-720p?
@oarking said:
After reading that wiki page half a dozen times, other posts, and experimenting… Does the blue cutoff quality have to be first?
No the cutoff doesn’t need to be the first, it depends completely on what you want in the end. Quoting from the wiki, the cutoff is “The quality that when met or exceeded will not accept any higher quality releases” - if you want it to grab whatever it can and stop the cutoff needs to be the first quality.
What happens if the cutoff is unavailable and one of the others is downloaded, why wouldn’t it replace them with the cutoff like it is now?
It would do just that, you said it was grabbing 1GB files and replacing them with smaller ones later, if thats what you want then its fine, if you want it stop on the 1GB files your profile needs to change.
I get the order of importance but is there an option to just download whichever is found first and stop? Or would that just be creating one profile with just HDTV-720p?
In this case, make the cutoff the first quality and it will stop there, if you only want HDTV 720p and never BR 720p or WEBDL 720p then make a profile with the one quality.
Ok, thanks for taking the time to help.
